In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, Tiziano Terzani recounts a scene in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in which he is at a fortune-teller’s house, sitting in a dark room lit by an oil lamp. Over the door and written in chalk (and presumably in Khmer) is, “Carnal passion, jealously, […]
Connected To All Outside The Airplane Window
Travel long and far enough and over time you’ll have looked out several airplane windows. Through the oval frame you will have seen the glaciers of Alaska and the rice fields of Bali, the Pyramids of Giza and the temples of Bangkok. You’ll have gazed upon the White House in winter, the Eiffel Tower the […]
Constant Change In Cairo, Egypt (And Elsewhere)
If you are looking for Egyptian antiques in Cairo – and by antique I mean something from around fifty or one hundred years ago, not something from King Ramses’ bedstand in 1292 B.C. – you can find an array of items among the shops like the one above near the Khan el-Khalili bazaar. Egypt has […]
If You Want To Identify Me
On the road, one of the most common questions the traveler is asked is “Where are you from?” It is a fair question, but if you hear it daily for months in a row you may begin to wonder what it really means, just as you wonder what it really means when you answer “the United […]
10 Photos: Ships Around The World
Most of us, especially if we don’t live near a port, think little about ships even though they are foundational to our way of life. There are approximately 100,000 working ships at sea, carrying 90 percent of world trade. Right now the clothes you are wearing, the coffee or mobile device in your hand, some of […]
View Through A Cracked Window Pane (Rongbuk Monastery, Tibet)
I had never given Mount Everest much thought before, but that was because until this afternoon I had never met her. Now, sitting on my bed at 9:00 p.m. and viewing the 29,029-foot mountain through a cracked window pane in Tibet, I knew some small part of my life had changed forever. I was in […]
Travel Photography And The Act Of Giving
When on the road with my camera, sometimes for months at a time, I often go to bed with the distinct feeling that I receive more than I give. I am a traveling photographer who focuses on people, which means I spend my days asking things of others. I ask for their permission, their time, […]
Sacredness Began in Qana, Lebanon?
Tucked away in the rocky hills of southern Lebanon is the town of Qana. It is a place where, while buying a bottle of juice in a tiny store, a conservatively dressed Shia woman and her children may come up and ask where you are from, and then tell you about their uncle in Dearborn […]
Taking Stock Of Our Lives
There are places in this world that urge you to pause, and Lebanon’s Qadisha Valley is one. As the day ends over this historic landscape — birthplace of one of the most popular poets of all time, Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet — you look around and sense that the sun has set here for thousands of years, well […]
Michelangelo In All Of Us (Bil’in, West Bank)
You might not know it from the photo, but the girl and guy above don’t care much for each other. The scene is the West Bank village of Bil’in, and the protestor, from Europe or the United States, most likely, is trying to take a shield away from an Israeli soldier. The picture almost seems […]
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